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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ransom think might be happening?
(a) That he is insane and actually in a hospital on earth and the entire trip has been in his head
(b) That he is home asleep and dreaming all of this
(c) That he has become a multiple personality
(d) That somehow the space travel has actually split his body and there are two Ransoms wandering the woods

2. Weston replies to Ransom's questions by telling him not to talk too much in order to:
(a) listen the the hum of the engine
(b) conserve air
(c) eat his ham and eggs
(d) keep from getting laryngitis

3. Ransom plans to use the pilfered object(s) to:
(a) have a way of surviving alone for a week
(b) have tea alone in his room
(c) be ready to camp out on the planet when they land
(d) kill himself if necessary

4. How does Ransom feel when Weston and Devine open the manhole?
(a) Homesick for earth
(b) Impatient to get out and see the planet
(c) Excited to be on a far away planet
(d) Frightened at the thought of leaving the ship

5. What are the three men doing in Ransom's dream?
(a) Fighting
(b) Smoking pipes together
(c) Climbing over a wall
(d) Having dinner

6. What does the shifting gravity do to the ship?
(a) Makes Ransom feel like his bones are breaking
(b) Makes the ship seem smaller
(c) Makes the men much heavier
(d) Turns walls into floors and floor into ceilings

7. What happens to the temperature of the ship as they enter the gravity of Malacandra?
(a) The temperature drops
(b) The temperature stays the same
(c) The temperature changes intemittently from hot to cold
(d) It becomes hotter

8. What is an hnakra and its relationship to the hross?
(a) The animal the hross uses to herd their domestic animals
(b) The sea creature who attacked Weston and Devine, the hross hunt hnakra
(c) A type of land animal similar to a leopard
(d) An hnakra is another intelligent creature who act as teachers and nursemaids to the hross' children

9. What does Ransom see among the trees?
(a) Small red creatures dart in and out among the enormous trees
(b) A strange looking yellow and blue bird
(c) Weston and Devine looking for him
(d) A sorn looking for him

10. How does Ransom escape from the water?
(a) the black creature pulls Devine under and Weston is distracted shooting at the animal
(b) the black creature manages to grab both Weston and Devine
(c) the sorns throw rocks at Weston and Devine and Ransom runs away
(d) Devine can't swim and Weston takes his gun off Ransom while rescuing Devine

11. What does Harry do at the Rise?
(a) Chops wood
(b) Milks the cows
(c) Tends the furnace for the two professors who live at The Rise.
(d) Cleans the yard

12. When Ransom comes to from being drugged, he tries to escape but is unable because:
(a) there is no door in the room he is in
(b) he can't find his shoes
(c) he is knocked out from behind
(d) he is chained to the wall

13. Ransom contemplates what he has learned from Weston and realizes he's ready to face what?
(a) Killing Weston
(b) Death
(c) Never seeing earth again
(d) Being on another planet

14. At the location in question #3, Ransom meets a former schoolmate whose name is:
(a) Chris
(b) David
(c) Devine
(d) Henry

15. When Ransom asks why he is kidnapped, Weston tells him that:
(a) Ransom's knowledge of astronomy is needed
(b) Ransom was to be used for space experiments
(c) Ransom was the most outstanding example of humanity
(d) Weston is only following orders and does not know why

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom do Devine and Ransom plan to deliver Ransom?

2. What does Ransom contemplate at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. What do the creatures do?

4. What happens to Ransom on the boat?

5. What bothers Ransom about describing earth to the hross?

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